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How vaccine-skeptic France and Germany came to support near-mandates

How vaccine-skeptic France and Germany came to support near-mandates How vaccine-skeptic France and Germ. PARIS - When France and Germany launched their coronavirus vaccination programs late last year, officials in both countries assured that the shots wouldnt be mandatory in their societies, where vaccine skepticism is widespread. But more than half a year later, the two nations are going further than most other Western countries in granting privileges to people who have been vaccinated and making daily life difficult for those who aren t. These aren t mandates. Not formally. But in practice, some of the measures come close. In contrast with the U.S. states that have explicitly banned vaccination mandates or passports, the European Union is using digital covid certificates, with scannable QR codes that quickly show if someone has been vaccinated, tested negative or recovered from covid-19. The certificates were designed with the primary goal of easing movement across borders, b

Why coronavirus vaccinations in France are lagging so far behind

Why coronavirus vaccinations in France are lagging so far behind Rick Noack © Jeff Pachoud/AFP/Getty Images A nurse administers the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to a medical worker at the Croix Rousse Hospital in Lyon, France, on Jan. 6. PARIS France is trying to increase the speed and urgency of its coronavirus vaccination campaign, after a cautious rollout and slow progress drew fierce criticism. France had by Sunday administered only about 500 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, compared with 270,000 doses in neighboring Germany. By Thursday, the numbers were about 45,000 in France and more than 417,000 in Germany. The lag was blamed largely on bureaucratic obstacles. But those obstacles were no accident. They reflect the French government’s struggle with how to calibrate a mass vaccination campaign in one of the world’s most vaccine-skeptical countries.

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